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[Position]
Job Title: Associate Director Data Solution Delivery IM Japan (Insights Product Engineering)

TT Generic Job Role: Business Services / Solution Delivery
Reports to: Director Digital Solution Delivery IM Japan

[Company Description]
Global Pharmaceutical Company

[Responsibilities]
ROLE PURPOSE

• Manage the design, deployment and delivery of business data solutions vertically across PPDD units for a particular domain (digital platforms solutions) in the country/region
• Implement data strategy and roadmap in alignment with strategic priorities working along with architecture teams and TT Strategic business partner teams
• Responsible to Business Units for end-to-end data solution delivery and operations for data related products and platforms following industry best practices and continuous improvement

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Co-define and execute digital technology delivery strategy for business systems, platforms, and processes for Japan Innovative Medicines business unit
• Partner with business stakeholders and TT Strategic Business Partners to provide demand analysis, solution proposal/evaluation, and funding estimates.
• Partner with relevant Technology Service/Solutions Delivery teams to ensure that the product and platform strategy balances the sophisticated needs of Japan key market for reuse across other priority markets and cost effectively scale
• Ensure on time, within budget, compliant, secure, and quality delivery of data related projects / products
• Manage data solutions and products and ensure that they are fit for purpose and achieve the desired business value and impact
• Run efficient DevOps for digital products or applications, ensuring availability and optimal performance. Drive communication in close collaboration with Service Operations team when critical issues arise.
• Ensure governance structure for data products, operations, etc. with right stakeholder representation and communication
• Track, report, and deliver against agreed success factors and KPIs for various stakeholders in TT and business

Additional accountabilities (Japan Specific)

• Define, plan and implement the Japan Data & Analytics strategy following the company principles of going big on data & digital including advisory to business stakeholders
• Elaborate the solution design for the Japan Data Product considering all relevant functional and non-functional business requirements in close collaboration with global architects and drive technology transition to future platform
• Implement industry standards and development methodologies, including Agile and DevOps, within the analytics product to increase responsiveness and growth
• End-to-end responsible for the Japan Data Warehouse / local data product with regards to it`s lifecycle, design, development, enhancement, operations and consumption cost.
• Drive enablement of multiple Analytics & Exploratory business use cases through in-time & in-quality provisioning of required data. Focus on DARWIN program digital data deliverables including integration with other/supporting streams.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS / MEASURES OF SUCCESS

• Delivery on agreed KPIs including business impact
• Launch of innovative technology data solutions for Japan and across the company at scale
• Business impact and value generated from TT solutions
• Adoption and development of Agile, Productization and DevOps practices
• Operations stability and effective risk management
• Feedback on customer experience

JOB DIMENSION
Complexity

• Local market & product focus, cross-business unit, functional and non-functional (platform, application and capabilities)
• Japan data warehouse / data products and digital commercial capabiltiy, enabling country and global reporting, visualiziation & advanced analyticvs

Influence

• Part of global TT team, close collaboration with function / global platform leads & their teams
• Liaison with local business process owners in the area of Customer domain, as well as regional commercial stakeholders.

[Requirements]
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Solid educational background, MBA or advanced degree in Information Technology, engineering or computer science.
• Min. 5-10 years' experience in multiple assignments in IT, preferably relating to Marketing & Sales, in large, multi-national companies.
• Project / Program management skills proven in complex organizational environments (e.g. matrix organizations).
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills applied in complex environments (e.g. matrix/divisional organizations).
• Deep knowledge of state-of-the-art IT technologies and best practices around Data Warehousing, Reporting and AI & Advanced Analytics (like e.g. Python)
• Background / experience on big data technologies and related capabilities for data ingestion, storage, data quality framework, exploratory, DevOps tools etc. (like but not limited to: AWS storage, ETL tools Streamsets, Airflow, Databirks, SnowFlake)
• Sound understanding of business & backend processes across commercial platforms. Experienced related to IT controls/audit requirements.
• Experience in preparing & executing digital data strategy and leveraging data for (advanced) analytics & generating business insights.
• Healthcare industry including FMCG experience & understanding commercial business process is a plus

LANGUAGES

• Japanese, business fluent in English (written and spoken)

IMPACT ON ORGANIZATION (optional)

• End-to-end responsible Solution Delivery Manager for local data platform and downstream applications including related projects and operations.

COMPETENCY PROFILE (optional)

• Product management
• DevOps
• Enterprise and business architecture
• Software development
• Stakeholder Management

[Language Requirement]
English Language level: Business level
Japanese Language level: Fluent - Native Level (Equivalent to JLPT N1)
Work permission in Japan required

[Salary]
12~14.5 million JPY
(Experiences and skills will be considered)

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Reference: JO-2203-469095
Seniority Level: Director
Job Function: Information Technology, Health Care Provider